Marcia McNutt
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February 19, 1952 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
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| President of the National Academy of Sciences | |
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Assumed office July 1, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Ralph J. Cicerone |
| 15th Director of the United States Geological Survey | |
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In office 2009 – 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Mark D. Myers |
| Succeeded by | Suzette Kimball |
Marcia Kemper McNutt (born February 19, 1952) is an American geophysicist who is president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). She was editor-in-chief of the journal Science. McNutt holds a visiting appointment at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She is a member of the NAS advisory committee for the Division on Earth and Life Studies and the Forum on Open Science. McNutt chaired the NAS climate intervention committee who delivered two reports in 2015.
McNutt was the 15th director of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and science adviser to the United States Secretary of the Interior. Before working for USGS, McNutt was president and chief executive officer of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), an oceanographic research center in the United States, professor of marine geophysics at the Stanford University School of Earth Sciences and professor of marine geophysics at University of California, Santa Cruz.
McNutt's father was a small business owner and her mother was a college-educated homemaker. In an interview with the National Academy of Sciences, McNutt said that in their household, women’s education was a tradition and a norm, and that her parents encouraged McNutt and her sisters academically.
She was valedictorian of her class at the Northrop Collegiate School (now The Blake School) in Minneapolis, graduating in 1970. She received a bachelor's degree in physics summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Colorado College in 1973. As a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, she then studied geophysics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography where she earned a PhD in earth sciences in 1978. Her dissertation was titled Continental and Oceanic Isostasy. McNutt is a NAUI-certified scuba diver and she trained in underwater demolition and explosives handling with the U.S. Navy UDT and Seal Team.
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